Joonhwi Kim
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

I am a PhD candidate at Caltech. My work explores geometrical foundations of our universe with curiosities toward spacetime, black holes, and quantum particles/fields. #General_Relativity #Scattering_Amplitudes #Twistor_Theory

During the 2021-2026 academic years in California, I researched three topics on gravitation as a graduate student:

  • Spinning Black Holes in 4d:
    • Reboot of twistor particle programme [2,3]
    • Newman-Janis algorithm promoted to a rigorous derivation [8]
    • Kerr effective action
    • Compton amplitudes via (curved) massive twistor theory
    • Post-Minkowskian gravity applications [6]
  • Generalized Symmetries:
    • Exact one-form symmetry in dynamical gravity [4]
  • Double Copy / Color-Kinematics Duality:
    • Classical double copy for Taub-NUT instanton [5]
    • Amplitudes double copy from field-theoretic and twistorial ideas [11]
Also investigated are foundations of scattering theory: phase space worldlines [9,11], in-in formalism [2,7,12].

This marks a productive 5-year period with 11 papers and 5 invited talks.